After the closing
down of the factories in 1996, you can learn on the two-hundred-year old
entrepreneurial history of the Museo de las Reales Fábricas de San Juan de
Alcaraz, open to the public since 2001 after being refurbished by the Escuela
Taller J.J. Graubner (training workshop).
This peculiar
industrial museum was developed to protect and value the traces of our
technological heritage and to preserve the
working class memories in its different scopes. An important
brass and bronze art collection is kept, together with molds and machinery that
dated back the 19th and 20th centuries. Nowadays the factory remains on stand
by, where collective imagery settles into common history…